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Insofar as job stability exists in NBA front offices, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has long seemed secure in his position. Over the years, he has had carte blanche to conjure cap space through salary dumps to chase free agents. He has enjoyed the freedom to be hyper-aggressive on the trade market. He has [...]

Bradley Beal is injured again. The Washington Wizards’ shooting guard left in the third quarter of the team’s blowout win over the shorthanded Boston Celtics on Wednesday night with a right hamstring injury. His legs almost did a full split while he had the ball in his hands, so upon first glance at the play, [...]

When the reigning NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers visit the White House on Thursday, they may be the last team to do so for quite some time. Per Sports Illustrated‘s Lee Jenkins: [tweet https://twitter.com/SI_LeeJenkins/status/796379270457212928] Personally, I don’t doubt this. The NBA is more progressive than any other professional sports league in the United States, and the [...]

Kurt Rambis is now the face of the New York Knicks defense. If you’re getting deja vu, you won’t be the only one. The Knicks named Rambis interim head coach last season after firing Derek Fisher, and now, under Jeff Hornacek, he’s being given more responsibility yet again. ESPN.com’s Marc Stein was the first with [...]

At 3-3, with the league’s best offense and its second-worst defense, the Boston Celtics are not who we thought they would be. We thought they would be a two-way powerhouse that challenges the Cleveland Cavaliers for Eastern Conference supremacy. But, as of now, they seem unsettlingly mediocre and overwhelmingly flawed on the defensive end—which doesn’t [...]

Last month, apparently, it looked like Festus Ezeli was tracking toward his Portland Trail Blazers debut. But then his left knee injury started acting up, and everything unraveled. From CSNNW.com’s Jason Quick: Ezeli suffered swelling in his left knee after he took part in two Blazers practices on Oct. 17 and Oct. 18, after which [...]

In Saturday night’s game in Philadelphia against the 76ers, LeBron James passed Hakeem Olajuwon to become a top 10 scorer in NBA history. [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA/status/795294787112992768] [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA_Skits/status/795045308073988096] After scoring 23 points in the Cavaliers first loss of the season to the Hawks last night, LeBron now has 26, 993 career points. So at 31 years [...]

Seven games as the Houston Rockets’ official point guard is all James Harden needs to declare himself the best floor general in the NBA. No, seriously, that’s it. As he told The Vertical’s Michael Lee: New Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni has worked with great scorers and great playmakers at his various stops around the league, [...]

Don’t let Donald Trump winning the presidential election over Hilary Clinton distract you from the fact that Joel Embiid is the greatest peddler of snark ever. Late Tuesday night, as it became clear Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States, Joel Embiid took to Twitter with some thoughts: [tweet https://twitter.com/joelembiid/status/796258910617370624] He [...]

Certain people (me) have been bemoaning (me) the New York Knicks’ inconsistent use (me) of Kristaps Porzingis (me) on the offensive end (me) this season (me). Why isn’t he more of a focal point? Why isn’t he finishing games? Why doesn’t Derrick Rose pass to him more? All these questions have a simple answer: He’s [...]